DEPPE, LOUIS

DEPPE, LOUIS. Jazz singer (12 April 1897 in Horse Cave, Kentucky; 26 July 1976 in Chicago). His family moved to Springfield, Ohio, when he was a child; he began singing in local hotels and nightclubs at an early age. When he was sixteen, he was befriended by Madame C.J. Walker , who took him to New York and arranged for him to study voice briefly with Buzzi Pecci, coach of Enrico Caruso . Deppe sang baritone solos on concerts in several places...